Requirements:
- Minimum experience: 1.5 years general nursing experience
- Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes, only with 2+ years of experience.
- Travelers must live 100 miles away from any Monument Health facility.
- Permanent staff must wait 1 full year to return as a traveler.
- Certs: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS
- Completion of a nursing education program that is approved by a board of nursing; Registered Nurse (RN) - South Dakota Board of Nursing
- PCU level RN
- Experience with Cardiac procedural recovery (CABG/TAVR/post cardiac cath), MI pharmacology, titratable Cardiac/vasoactive gtts (Cardizem, Amiodarone, Nitro, Levo, Dopamine) - please request manager approval if traveler does not have this, Heparin gtts, cardiac rhythm interpretation, chest tubes management, TNK administration (preferred)
- Support on the Unit:
- CNA (Ratio: 1:5-8, depending on shift)
- Charge nurse - Unassigned.
- Phlebotomy - Yes, peripheral blood draws
- IV/VAT Team - No
- Resource Nurse - Occasionally
- Tele tech would oversee cardiac monitoring - RN would confirm strips 6a & 6p
- RT - yes, 24/7
- Hospitalist - in facility 24/7, but not dedicated to unit.
Charting System/Equipment:
- Epic - please let CRT know if traveler does not have EPIC experience so they can ask approval.
- Alaris
- Omnicell
Floating: If yes, where?
- Primarily to our sister unit, General PCU - as needed.
- Could also be floated to MS/Tele or ICU to care for PCU level patients.
- Could be floated within scope of practice and below.
Orientation: (facility and unit)
- 2 partial days of education
- (3) 12hr shifts on the unit
Scheduling:
- Weekend rotation: Every other.
- Will they be on call? If so, what is that schedule? No call
- Holiday Expectations: Every other
- Approval of time off? Up to 7 days, must extend if taking a full week off. No time off the first (3) weeks of August annually (Sturgis Bike Rally)